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1.1the provincesThe whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture.

‘I made my way home to the dreary provinces by train’

‘The overwhelming majority of its members are women from the provinces, that is outside the National Capital District.’

‘He issued a decree appealing to his ministers in the capital and in the provinces to publicize his reform edicts, in the hope that Chinese public opinion would rally to his support.’

‘Numbers vary from 9,000 to 80,000, 98 per cent of whom descend on the capital from the provinces.’

‘Liberal and democratic periodicals flourished both in the capital and the provinces.’

‘It did not distribute money to the provinces, which had their own arts budgets.’

‘The improvement in the roads led to the rise of bus services from the provinces to the capital, thereby aiding the migration of the rural population into Bangkok.’

non-metropolitan areas, non-metropolitan counties, the rest of the country, middle america, middle england, rural areas, rural districts, the countryside, the backwoods, the wilds, the wilderness, the back of beyond